What happens when a young journalist moves abroad to Turkey in the wake of 9-11?

I still felt as if there was some fundamental thing I hadn't understood about America's

place in the world and what that event had meant.

Susie Hansen will be here to discuss her new book, Notes on a Foreign Country, an American

Abroad, and a Post-American World.

Who were the four Warner Brothers and how did they rise to Hollywood prominence with their

founding of one of America's most successful movie studios?

Like many people in that trade, they thought, well, we need good films.

So why not try to make some films ourselves the best how they got into being both a production

house and a distribution company?

Film critic and historian David Thompson will tell us about his new book, Warner Brothers.

Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Susie Hansen joins us now.

Her new book, Notes on a Foreign Country, an American Abroad, an Apost-American World,

is reviewed this week on our cover by his sham-matar.

Susie, thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me.

So you are actually still living in Istanbul.

Yes.

How long have you lived there?

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